Officials dropped for try blunder

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With its new policy of full-time engage Super League referees in chaos, the RFL dropped Steve Ganson and Ashley Klein from its match officials roster for this weekend’s Carnegie Challenge Cup fifth-round ties, amid the continuing fallout from their actions during the turbulent derby between Leeds Rhinos and Bradford Bulls in Cardiff on Sunday.

Following Ganson’s public apology for wrongly awarding Leeds’s winning try, Klein, the match video official, last night owned up to having told the referee to award the penalty, which led to Jordan Tansey scoring Leeds’s illegitimate last-second touchdown. Not only was his offside decision against Matt